Bryce Hopkins knew before Kentucky or Providence’s names even popped up on the screen what was about to happen.
“When the seeding was coming out and it got to the last region, I had seen that Kentucky wasn’t being picked yet, and we hadn’t been picked yet either, so I had seen a lot of mock drafts and mock bracket reveals, and they were saying that we were going to play them,” the former Kentucky Wildcat turned Providence star told reporters today.
“I was kind of expecting us to receive that matchup. I was just excited to play a team that I came from and, you know, just playing against some familiar faces.